Maximilian Roth
Germany
Hey there, I'm a fellow amateur artist who especially likes to draw in charcoal and graphite!
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Maximilian Roth
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3yr
Here's my entry for this challenge including seven reference pictures and done with a ballpoint pen: The monkey war rider.
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Hello everyone,
this is the literally unexpected super-heroic ambush of one of the last remaining monkey-warriors, who are ruled by gigantic and cruel dinosaurs, as a final attempt to break free. He is equipped with his selfmade cast iron helmet, his swift leather gear, a throat cutter and a stolen technical information interface.
Inspired by different series, artists and images like James Gurney, Jurassic World, Dragonball Z, Planet of the Apes and real macaques.
Drawn in graphite with a little bit of charcoal powder for the atmosphere. This is actually my first ever drawing which is not an academic figure or portrait.
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3yr
I agree with what Tim said, but just wanted to say that the gesture in this drawing is really nice. Good job :)
Maximilian Roth
3yr
Thank you ;D
3yr
The shadow mapping is a really solid start! And you can definitely develop the shading into something really nice. Definitely keep going on this—
I see two things happening with the shading:
One is that you're not being clear enough about what's in light and what's in shadow. In particular, the reflected lights are often the same value as some of the modeling in the light and halftones. The halftones, light, and highlight should all generally be lighter than the core shadows, reflected light, and ambient occlusion shadows. Also be careful to distinguish between those shadow modeling factors. The core shadow value fluctuates quite a bit.
The other thing—some of the smaller fluctuations are suggesting forms to the viewer that don't actually exist. Flattening or smoothing out your shadows a bit can help with this. Check out Dorian Iten's excellent article & video on creating smooth tones: https://www.dorian-iten.com/smooth-tones/ . You don't have to get to the top level of smoothness, but a few passes of "island hunting" could really help.
Hope this helps!
3yr
Hey Tim! First of all, thank you for your detailed critique, I appreciate it!
I know I can't fix this drawing completely to suddenly think it's phenomenal but I tried to combine your two very valid points. Normally I'm not a fan of blending stomps but this time I used them to "hunt for islands" while at the same time distinguish the shadow and light side a bit more. It's not that different, but still.
-Max
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3yr
Moin Philip, lange nichts gehört :D. Habe 6 Wochen Sommerferien und wäre absolut ready!!! Wie geht's dir so?
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Shading critique3yr
Hey all!
Here's a recent drawing I did. The first pic is after the shadow mapping and up to this point I feel confident about it. But as soon as I add the shadows it starts to fall apart for some reason and I don't know how to fix it. It feels dirty and no longer as realistic as I would like it to be.
I would appreciate your critique and feedback!
Max
2021/6/4. Hi everybody. Here's part of my weekly assignment for this section. Thanks for any advice or suggestion. Good night.
3yr
Hey Marco,
wow, these are just so good! You can clearly see your knowledge of basic structure without losing gesture.
The falcon/hawk (sorry for not being able to tell them apart) has a well simplified shape for the body, however, its wings and tail look, compared to all your other drawings, rather flat because you seem to have not followed your basic structural shapes there.
Keep it up!!
-Max
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Hi everyone,
I know it's a little late but I finally got the time to draw from this reference picture. This was done in graphite in approximately 2 hours.
Unfortunately, I didn't quite get the likeness because I drew the eyes a little too far apart from each other.
Other than that, any feedback and critique is welcome!
-Max
Part of today’s practice. Open for any critique!!
3yr
Hi Sylvianna,
your underlying Loomis head is looking really good. Especially the extreme side views or the completely straight on views tend to be hard but you handeled it well.
However, I noticed two things:
- The thing with the Loomis head is that it's just a generic head schematic. So building up a face on the standard Loomis rhythms can result in generic looking faces. In your case, for example the jawline is a little too male in my opinion, because that's what Loomis created it for. Maybe you could go ahead and adjust the schematic more towards the likeness of your reference (if you had one).
- The second thing is your use of hard contour lines for the jaw, nose and cheek. Those lines tend to make a drawing flat. Don't get me wrong, contour lines definitely have their place if used carefully. I'd rather suggest that you try to use the side of your pencil to create tiles of tone in order to indicate plane changes.
Hope this helps. Keep it up!! -Max
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here is my 4rth set! so far my hardest one were the 4rth and 5th pose.
On my last set of gestures I was told to focus on adding weight to the gestures and that was probably my main focus here. It was pretty difficult and I was struggling to figure out how exactly to add weight so let me know how I did.
Thanks :)
3yr
Hey there,
wow, these are actually great!! You can really feel the tension and the weight in them because you even exaggerated the poses very well.
Although it is good that your lines feel loose and are of good quality, I think the toll at the moment is that sometimes your proportions are a little off, for example the head size or the length of the upper body.
But seeing your overall achievement here, I think you can easily tackle this.
Keep it up!! - Max
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